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GSElevator Author Says He Will Fight to Keep Advance
After his book was abruptly canceled by Touchstone, John Lefevre told PW he's ready to take S&S to court if it tries to recover any portion of the advance it paid him.
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Tracking Amazon: '12 Years a Slave' Has Lock on Entire Category
Thirteen of the top 20 19th century U.S. history books on the site share a title in common.
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'Hungry Girl Diet' Tops Amazon a Month Before Pub
The upswing in preorders followed a promotional email sent by St. Martin's to the Hungry Girl subscriber list of 1.2 million.
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Bibliomotion Partners with Think Tank
The Boston-based startup announced a partnership with charitable think tank, Insight Labs.
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S&S Launches Site for Book Discovery
Off the Shelf will highlight titles released at least one year earlier.
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News Briefs: Week of March 3, 2014
Audible lowering royalty on self-published audiobooks and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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BAM Espresso Pilot A Success, So Far
Books-A-Million’s three-month experiment with the print-on-demand Espresso Book Machine has been a success, but the country’s second largest bookstore chain is not yet ready to take the program beyond the two locations that have been operating EBMs since last November.
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Fast-Growing Independent Publishers, 2014
The 11 companies that made PW’s list of fast-growing independent publishers in 2013 include four first-timers, four companies reappearing on the list after falling off for a year or two, and three companies that made the 2012 list.
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'Twelve Years a Slave' and the Oscar Effect
Sales of the movie-tie-in have climbed steadily in the lead up to the Academy Awards on Sunday—reaching back to holiday highs.
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R.R. Donnelley Buys Translation Tech Provider
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Peanuts Gang Hits Sourcebooks' Digital Platform
Sourcebooks announced on February 27 that the Chicago-based publisher is adding the Peanuts gang to its Put Me in the Story digital platform, which allows parents to create personalized versions of children's books as an app or in print format.
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Fifty Shades Trilogy Tops 100M Sold
As of this week, E.L. James's Fifty Shades trilogy has sold 100 million copies worldwide, and has spent 100 weeks on the "New York Times" bestseller list.
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Penguin Canada Partners With Rights Agency
Penguin Canada will follow Random House of Canada's lead in contracting out foreign rights sales to the Cooke Agency International.
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Court Date Set to Decide Ban On 'Diary of Malcolm X'
A court date of March 6 has been set to decide whether X Legacy LLC, a corporation representing the heirs of Malcolm X, can extend a temporary restraining order banning Third World Press from publishing "The Diary Malcolm X."
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ECW Testing Short Form Nonfiction Series
Toronto's ECW press launches new short non-fiction series of pop classics with titles "It Doesn't Suck" and "Raise Some Shell."
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Penguin Random House Remains Committed to Indian Publishing
Despite the controversy surrounding its publication of "The Hindus: An Alternative History," Penguin Random House said it remains committed to publishing in India.
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Sterling to Close Lark Offices
All Lark operations will move into Sterling's New York offices.
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News Briefs: Week of February 24, 2014
Investment group buys CodeMantra.
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Flatiron’s Frick Strengthens Categories
Since joining Flatiron Books, Bob Miller’s new imprint at Macmillan, senior editor Whitney Frick has been aggressively trying to fill various buckets.
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'Super Hawks' Sells Nearly 7k Copies First Week
Triumph's "instant book" about the Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl win fared well in its first full week on sale.